mixed bag

MIXED BAG

Aman Sinha3rd Year CSE

Rules

• Infinite Bounce.

• +10 for each correct answer.

• +15/-10 on Pounce

• Fuck Pounce and bounce. Session aao bounce pounce khelna hai to !!!!!

1. Identify X X said: "Porn? No, it's not porn. It's a piece of art. It's

just a piece of art. But you can see it like this. It's beautiful. You should see it. Unfortunately, porn is not so aesthetic and so beautiful. But love is sex also, you

know?

"This kind of story for the ones who have seen it - I'm sure nobody has seen it - it's too beautiful.

"This kind of story, when you choose to do it, you have to know the director. If it's somebody special, if it's a

real artist, you can do it. You can give, and be confident enough."

Answer

• Eric Cantona

2. What Term?

• X refers to a word's appearance in a body of text, not to either its origin or its prevalence in speech.X in ancient texts are usually difficult to decipher, since it is easier to infer meaning from multiple contexts than from just one.The avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton made a series of seven films from 1971 to 1972 titled X I: Nostalgia to X VII: Special Effects

Answer

• Hapax Legomena

3. Identify Identify the painting and the painter.Why was the painter in news recently?

Answer

• Painting : Yellow NudePainter: Sonia Delaunay

• To acknowledge female painters, at Tate Modern, the two main exhibition spaces will , for the first time, host solo shows by women simultaneously: the contemporary painter Marlene Dumas and abstract pioneer Sonia Delaunay from 15 April to 9 August 2015.

4. Identify the lady and her claim to fame

Answer

• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

• She was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post. In 1937 she was elected to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and was designated minister of local self-government and public health.

• She was also the first woman President of UNGA.

5. Give me X

• X is an initiative by the Reliance Industries in the field of biotechnological advancement. It is established as a part of the subsidiary of Reliance Industries, Reliance Life Sciences. X is the first to have a registered cord blood bank and repository in India as well as the entire region of South East Asia.X runs three programs for the collection of cord blood: X S, X A and X M. X S and X A offer stem cell enriched cord blood repository services as well as stem cell enriched cord blood for transplantation to address haematological disorders. X S is a program for sibling donors. This program is for a mother or a family that wants to process and bank the umbilical cord blood stem cells from the present pregnancy.

Answer

• ReliCord

6. What is common between them?

• Francisco Clavet did it in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in 2008 in Zagreb and Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport. In total, seven men have done it from 1978 through 2010.

Andreas Haider-Maurer, who reached the final in 2010 Vienna before losing to top-seeded Jürgen Melzer, and Marcel Granollers who lost against David Ferrer in 2010 Valencia. On the women's side Melinda Czink reached the final of the 2005 Canberra International, but lost to Ana Ivanovic.

Answer.

• All were "Lucky Losers."• A lucky loser is a sports player who loses a

match in the qualifying round of a knockout tournament, but who then enters the main draw when another player withdraws after the tournament has started because of illness, injury or other reason. The lucky loser then enters the main draw, normally in place of the withdrawn player. This can only happen before all players in the main draw have started their first match in the tournament.

7. Significance of this match.

Answer.

• Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Colin Croft, Malcolm Marshall — took field together only once, on November 24, 1981

8. Give FundaTerry Pratchett, the famed British author, died in Mar 2015. After his death, his official Twitter account put out the following tweets (read from bottom to top)Why is tha first tweet after his death, written in Upper Case.

Answer.

• In the Discworld novels of Pratchett, Death is a recurring character - whenever he talks, his words are written in capital letters.

9. Identify the Monument

Answer

• The Tower of Hanoi.

10. What is so special?This is the signature of a cat named F.D.C. Willard.What is so special about this cat?

Answer

• F.D.C. Willard was the pen name of a Siamese cat named Chester, who internationally published two papers under this name on low temperature physics in scientific journals, one as co-author and the other time as the sole author.

11. What is X

• X is an acronym for a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The X principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.The acronym was reportedly coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works.The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools.

Answer

• K.I.S.SKeep it simple,stupid.

12. Which Nation?

This is the flag of a nation whose leader is Tony Nader and the currency is Raam.Which nation am I talking about.

Answer

• Global Country of World Peace- It is a micronation.

• A micronation, sometimes referred to as a model country or new country project, is an entity that claims to be an independent nation or state but is not officially recognized by world governments or major international organizations.

13. Etymolgy

• X comes from the Greek τραγῳδία meaning the song of the male goat. The ancient Greeks thought goats were crazy sad, apparently. Also, they used to have performances where a chorus would dance around a goat and then ritually sacrifice him. Which is pretty damn sad, if you think about it.

Answer

• Tragedy.

14. What am I talking about?

• X is generally considered to be an undesirable or dreaded situation.The concept has been criticized as being unfair and misogynistic. Ali Binazir described X in his website that it's a "territory only to be rivaled in inhospitability by the Western Sahara, the Atacama, and Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell." X is also the name of a reality series aired on MTV, US.X is also an American instrumental hip hop duo based in East Bay, California whose productions include "Chuch" and "Perfect Skies", featured on the 2011 mixtape 808s & Dark Grapes II.

Answer

• FriendZone